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The name of the Language derives from the notion of the speakers that language was given from the hollow cavity of the Sound Organ(Tsa-lat) also known as the vocal cords hence Tesnafek(Singing) Kuna-lia(Hollow).

It was developed by the Tauale [tawalɛ]
, a small tribal nation that inhabited the ancient Northern Sea (Portuguese: Mar do Norte, TekK-l: Aka-nolete Nale ) and Pyrenees (Portuguese: Pirinéus, TekK-l: Fileneus) and moved into modern day Indonesia in the Papua and Sumatra regions (Portuguese: Papua e Sumatra, TekK-l: Fafua Ane Sunatsa) throughout the age of colonization with the Portuguese and English.

With a population of about 5000 speakers, it is a declining language but with many new native language speakers around the world. This language has no known dialects as of yet.

The first alphabet of this language was actually a set of symbols that were in total 51 for all vowel and vowel diphthongs and consonant and consonant clusters as well as some symbols for the - and other marks, the language passed then through a usage of Chinese hanze and Japanese kanji and hiragana. This language now is written in Latin reduced alphabet or in a special Hanze-Kanji script and the Capital letters are used as a separator between words so actually the name of the language is TesnafekKuna-lia but for foreigners a space is added for less confusion while maintaining that Capital letters in the beginning of each word.

Some of the words in the language have been influenced by other languages like: Japanese, English, Portuguese, Latin, Italian, Danish and Mandarin.

The Official morphological type of this language is influenced by these languages, as such this language is a Fusional like in Portuguese, Italian, English and Latin but also Polysynthectic/Agglutinative like Japanese and Mandarin.

There are some loan words that have not been translated into Tesnafek Kuna-lia like the word Bear that comes from Danish(bjørn) Biotün that can also be written as Biotun for translation into Tesnafek Kuna-lia or the verb Notalo(see) from Italian/Portuguese/Latin from these are not treated as foreign words but as normal words.

Words that have an already defined meaning in TekK-l like Nola(Yes) or loan words that have more than 400 years of usage are normal words while other are foreign words.

At the moment the language has at least 60 words from these languages that were incorporated during the millennia.

Curiosities

Words like Dinosaur(Fial-sae, big monster) or Monster(Saesal) actually have a back story to why they are this way.

The Empires of Cartage and Rome were building their power during the time the language was developing, first when the tribe was in the Northern sea going towards the Navarre region of the Pyrenees, the word for monster is originated from the name Ceasar of the Roman Empire while the Dinosaur refers also to Elephants that the Cartage empire had when they started going south to the Spanish region of Gibraltar that was controlled by Cartage during the Punic Wars and later by the Romans, the bones that were first found by these tribes were of the Mammoths and Big Elephants so they received the name big monsters, to differentiate normally the natives use the now common word Fial-saekka( Big monster + kka suffix) that means Elephant to differentiate the two.

Nouns are normally formed by two or more radicals, they sometimes form from Verbal forms that aren't inside the Verb sentence part, the default type of all words is the Noun, this includes numbers, prepositions, adverbs and others.

Pronouns are a subclass of the Noun in this language, there are 6 main types but also some complex types.

If in the Subject sentence part the word is a subject pronoun(example:I ) if in the Object part it is an object pronoun(example: me).

The We pronoun is special, it is combined with Tut(This: close to the receiver)/Teo(That: close to the speaker) for the inclusion or exclusion of the receiver of the message, as well as having the gender change, totalling in 7 different forms for the We pronoun, the stem has no default gender nor inclusion this can and will generate trouble if not used correctly.

TekK-l

English Explanation

Sua

I

Basna

singular you

Nala-linat

he

Utae-linat

she

Linat

it(stem genderless)

Uneu-linat

it(other gender)

Uita

we(stem genderless)

Uita-tut

we(inclusion of receiver stem)

Uita-teo

we(exclusion of receiver stem)

Basnatet

plural you

Linatet

they(stem genderless)

Nala-linatet

they(males)

Utae-linatet

they(females)

Uneu-linatet

they(others)

In total there are 18 forms for the pronouns to take depending on the gender and inclusion, these are the same in Subject and Object.

Alone it doesn't have any meaning so it has to join a word/radical in order to gain a complete meaning.

Example: Nuknat (Animal); "nat" here doesn't have a meaning to share to the word so it is considered to be a suffix;

This is what is called a completion type suffix, it has no meaning it only transforms a radical into a noun/other types, declension suffixes are less common but they convey a special meaning that changes the gender/plural or even the meaning of the word itself.

Example: Page Fakke -> Book(page plural suffix tet) Fakketet

Curiosity: Nuknat and Nuk-nat exist but they all have different meanings: Nuknat -> Animal, Nuk-nat -> Animal Mail Service( also written like Nu-nat for less ambiguity).